[ENSLAVEMENT & ABOLITION]. Manuscript bill of sale for an 18-year-old enslaved woman named "Harriet." Giles County, Tennessee. 10 October 1840.

1p, 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. (top corners adhered to blue cardstock backing, approx. 1 in. tear along vertical fold at top edge line, small tear upper left corner, typed dealer description adhered at base of page).

Wiley Huff and his wife Sarah McCallum Huff acknowledge the receipt of payment from James and Neill McCallum, Executors of the Estate of Daniel McCallum Deceased (Father of the said Sarah)," in the form of property including "one negro woman a slave for life named Harriet aged about Eighteen years - valued at four hundred and fifty dollars...."

Enslaver Wiley Huff (1816-1854) married Sarah McCallum (1816-1841) on 25 June 1840. Harriet appears to have been gifted to the couple from Sarah's brothers as a wedding gift, along with "one bed and clothing, saddle and bridle...and one trunk...."

This lot is located in Cincinnati.